Food Reviews & Stories
Vast plates of flavor-packed Lebanese fare fight for space on the tables, juicy gyros burst with roasted lamb slices, customers tear at piping-hot servings of flatbread the size of pizzas, and all is well and good in the world. The mezza platters ($7.95)-with choices like falafel, spinach pie and ma
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Food Reviews & Stories
Beaterville Cafe is like a giant car wreck-but in a good way. Vintage hubcaps and assorted car parts cover the walls inside like chrome scales, and the cafe's tantalizing breakfast menu shares the same kitschy automotive aesthetic. Regulars (and they are legion) go for the frittata-style omelettes o
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Don't be put off by the dead-railroad-downtown-from-the-1950s vibe of Flying Pie's stretch of Montavilla; this pizza den deserves all of the "Best Pizza" accolades hanging on its walls. Italian- and American-style pie enthusiasts get a choice of four crust thicknesses (from New York City-style thin
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Food Reviews & Stories
In this city's scrawny excuse for a Chinatown, it's nice to see a truly authentic hole-in-the-wall Chinese spot like Good Taste. Roasted ducks hang by their gullets in one corner of the front window, while broken-down cardboard boxes cover another. Good Taste won't win awards for its authentically d
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For the last-minute shopper, four games worth giving.

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Just three days before Christmas, but there's no need to panic if you're without a gift for the 18- to 34-year-old male in your life. Luckily, that's the exact demographic group most likely to own and ...
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Seth Tibbott: the man who made Thanksgiving safe for vegans.

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Let's clear things up right away: Tofurky actually exists. No, it's not just a punch line. People really eat it. And though it might horrify carnivorous Portlanders, the vegan turkey substitute was bo ...
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How does it feel to be always one step away from the NBA?

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On a crisp late-October morning, the Portland Trail Blazers roam around a large gym near Interstate 5 in Tualatin. Today's practice is over, and the players crack jokes and hover around a row of fold- ...
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Kennedy, MTV personality

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If you were a teenager in the 1990s with a pathetically empty social agenda every afternoon, chances are you spent some quality time with MTV video jockey Kennedy. Like the annoying friend you endured ...
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Dr. William J. Brady

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Dr. William J. Brady had a spotless reputation. Over his medical career, he performed 10,000 autopsies and signed 20,000 death certificates. In 1964, he became the state's last elected coroner, having ...
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